entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on What's a good audiobooks server/client combo? 1 day ago:
So happy to hear this. It’s so nasty to me when devs lock essential features like offline playback behind a paywall.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 day ago:
Nobody is packaging a standard init script across all distros, basically. A script is expected to be unique per machine or at least per admin setting up a set of machines. A binary could have a secret exploit installed in it that nobody can see/audit before it’s too late.
At least that’s the theory. Personally I love systemd
- Comment on Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert 2 days ago:
And if you have a retirement account with investments, kinda at all. The entire US economy is hinging on AI at this point, to a deranged degree. Almost more than oil, at this point.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 2 days ago:
Yeah, you’d think that if anyone could have cracked this it’d be them, but…
- Comment on What's a good audiobooks server/client combo? 3 days ago:
Audiobookshelf is great. For iOS I’ve got a friend with an iPhone who said that Still is feature complete and the in-app purchases are basically just an optional donation.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 6 days ago:
Ironically my biggest issue with Discovery is that it’s pretty right-wing with its CIA stand-in apologia and blatantly militaristic style in Seasons 1 and 2 at least.
That and the sheer degree of melodrama. Every episode needs to have scenes of at least one or two characters in total anguish. It just wears me down compared to other Treks.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 2 weeks ago:
Sarcasm. The comment you replied to was being facetious. Obviously things are not going swimmingly. Use your context clues.
- Comment on The $20 USD bill is the new 5$ bill 4 weeks ago:
So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 weeks ago:
I have mine set like this. Clear bass can be adjusted further down, just depends. 400Hz is the boomy, buttery part of the range so if there’s too much boxy-ness you can turn that down judiciously. Keep in mind most musical pitch lives there too, though.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 4 weeks ago:
Cat litter can work wonders here
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense, inflation and tariffs
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s just because I’m an audio engineer so I was able to EQ them to my taste, but I love my WH-1000XM4 cans. But yeah, their studio cans are both top tier and dirt cheap. MDR-7506, they’re like $80 and generally sound like a million bucks because they’re used in basically every single recording studio as reference headphones.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 weeks ago:
Well, their TV brand is gone. Their headphones are still the top tier of consumer stuff and price-performance king for studio headphones
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 4 weeks ago:
communist government
Socialist government, sure, but communism describes a stateless society. “Communist government” is an oxymoron.
Yes, I am that guy. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, you get it
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 5 weeks ago:
See, I don’t trust myself to keep track of which digit is 8 vs 16 vs 32, so I end up recalculating to double check my work even though I usually have it right the first time.
I’m sure if I practiced it more I’d have it down cold, but it’s just how my OCD brain works
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 5 weeks ago:
Easy, I pin my pinky against my leg
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this. Sci-fi fanbases and especially Trek/Wars fans are constantly flipping out when their sci-fi is socially progressive at all, even if it started that way.
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 1 month ago:
The fungal zombies seem to operate at an instinctual level, so I’d argue that yes, they are able to stay hydrated. They also seem to have some sort of hive mind going on to a degree.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
Don’t trust AI to know what they’re doing for you. The only time they work reliably as a tool is when you already know what you’re doing enough to spot their errors.
AI is the wrong tool here. You need to do real internet research.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.
Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.
- Comment on My PS1 died today 2 months ago:
They embedded a PS1 in the PS2, but the PS1 compatibility for the PS3 and later is emulation. Also the PS2 compatibility for most of the revisions of the PS3 is emulated too. Only a couple of the earliest models crammed a PS2 in there
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] 2 months ago:
Princess Jellyfish is short but it has similar fashion themes.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 2 months ago:
If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 2 months ago:
The vast vast vast majority of artists create art without expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
Close. RFK Jr.
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 months ago:
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Legend of The Galactic Heroes. It’s a slow burn, but it has dozens of characters and many of them have emotionally satisfying arcs.
- Comment on We* emphasize exclusive access to objects more than we ever did. 3 months ago:
Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn’t share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 months ago:
If it’s built as well as the deck, it should be great
